Archives: Books
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Atlas of Monsters and Ghosts
If you believe that all you need to fight an evil bloodthirsty fiend is garlic or holy water, think again. What you need is to keep a cool head and …
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Mother Tongue
On the day she brings her sweet little sister, Nika, to school for the first time, eighteen-year-old Darya has already been taking care of her family for years. But a …
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Spin the Dawn
Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible …
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Riding a Donkey Backwards
Would you like to know how a thief can turn into a donkey? Whether a cow can climb a pole? Or why you should spoon yogurt into a lake? Mulla …
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Hawksbill Promise
There is a deserted bay on a small island off Antigua where hawksbill turtles crawl ashore at night during the mating season to lay their eggs. Two months later the …
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Survivor Girl
12-year-old Ali adores her reality-show celebrity father, Survivor Guy, and hopes to follow in his footsteps. But when he invites her on location, Ali is sure she won’t survive one …
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Get Me Out of This Book! : Rules and Tools for Being Brave
When Max the bookmark went into a scary book, he couldn’t LOOK and he SHOOK and he SCREAMED, “GET ME OUT OF THIS BOOK!” Then he learned to (1) breathe …
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The Buddy Bench
The way a schoolyard should be. Patty Brozo’s cast of kids brings a playground to raucous life, and Mike Deas’s illustrations invest their games with imaginary planes to fly, dragons …
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The Undoing of Thistle Tate
Thistle Tate is a glittering wunderkind–only seventeen, and a bestselling author of the wildly successful Lemonade Skies series, with the highly anticipated final book due to publish next year. And …
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Impossible Music
Music is Simon’s life—which is why he is devastated when a stroke destroys his hearing. He resists attempts to help him adjust to his new state, refusing to be counseled, …
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Monica Adventures Vol.3
Sunny still sleeps with a stuffed animal? Professor Anna is the last to know she is fired? Maggie has a crush…on a (much) older man? The new gossip blog “Troll …
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Why
Two-time Caldecott and Geisel Honoree Laura Vaccaro Seeger tells a disarmingly simple story about the lovable characters Bear and the unfailingly curious Rabbit. Bear just wants to water his flowers, …
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The Hero Next Door
From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another middle-grade short story collection—this one focused on exploring acts of bravery—featuring some of the best …
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Terrible Times Tables
A MODERN MULTIPLICATION PRIMER THAT TACKLES THE TERRORS OF A TYPICAL SCHOOL YEAR. LEARNING MATH HAS NEVER BEEN THIS MUCH FUN! Inspired by a Victorian math primer, Terrible Times Tables …
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Wilder Girls
A feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement …
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The Itty-Bitty Witch
Betty can’t wait to be a first-grade witch. But on the first day of school, her classmates start calling her “Itty Bitty” because she’s small and still uses her kinder-broom. …
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King of King Court
A DYNAMIC AND DEVASTATING MEMOIR ABOUT THE CYCLE OF TRAUMA CAUSED BY ADDICTION WITHIN ONE FAMILY From a child’s-eye view, Travis Dandro recounts growing up with a drug-addicted birth father, …
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Bruce Lee
Part of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Bruce Lee, the martial artist and Hollywood film star. Born in San Francisco but raised in …
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Vincent Book Two
Fabio Moon (Daytripper, How to Talk to Girls at Parties) says “It is so good reading VINCENT, by Vitor Cafaggi, that when it ends it leaves you longing for more.” …
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Horse Show! A Donkey-Donk Story
Donkey-Donk is very excited – she is going to a horse show! Before she goes to the show however, she must practice at home. Donk has to learn how to …
